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The Voice of Common Sense and Conservative Values VOLUME 91 NUMBER 6

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2020

Local activists contend that bail reform represents ‘failed policy’ SEE PAGE 3

Police arrest man in Bay Ridge stabbing, charged with other crimes • Page 2

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Police arrest man in Longer buses Bay Ridge stabbing, charged and more seats with assault, other crimes coming to B1 line

BY JAIME DEJESUS

JDEJESUS @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

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Police have arrested a Bay Ridge resident who they say stabbed a woman while her children were watching.

According to authorities, 33-year-old Spyros Feretzonis was arrested and charged with assault, reckless endangerment, possession of a weapon, criminal contempt, menacing and harassment.

The 68th Precinct announced the arrest on social media on Monday, Feb. 10, as

AT LEFT: Spyros Feretzonis is walked out of the 68th Precinct after his arrest.

did Councilmember Justin Brannan, who tweeted, “An arrest has been made for the stabbing of the woman on 5th Avenue last week. Perp lives in Bay Ridge and is believed to be a known EDP. Great job

by Captain Conwell and the 68th Precinct!”

Police say that on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at around 6:40 a.m. the woman, 34, and her two children were walking to her car at 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue when she was allegedly approached by Feretzonis who stabbed her in the abdomen with a sharp object before taking off, eastbound, down 83rd Street.

The victim went to a local hospital where she was listed in stable condition.

BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

If you ride the B1 bus, your chances of getting a seat are about to increase significantly.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed that new, longer buses with more passenger capacity are coming to the B1 bus line in April.

Officials from New York City Transit informed Community Board 10 of the coming change in a letter sent to the board on Jan. 16, according to District Manager Josephine Beck-

mann.

The longer vehicles, called articulated buses, are 60 feet long, as opposed to the standard-model buses, which are 40 feet in length.

The articulated buses, which have an accordiontype section in the center, can carry up to 115 passengers, 30 more than the buses currently in use.

“The B1 will be fully converted to articulated operation in April 2020,” MTA spokesperson Shams Tarek told the Home Reporter in an email.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

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Down for the count: Low Census numbers in Bay Ridge and Dyker could have huge impact on neighborhoods

The Dyker Lights draw large crowds of tourists each year.

Lighting the future — Looking ahead to Christmas 2020 in Dyker

BY PAULA KATINAS

PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

It went better than expected but not as well as it could have.

That was the assessment local officials and community leaders offered on the nationally famous Dyker Lights, the holiday event featuring dozens of extravagantly deco-

rated homes with thousands of twinkling lights that draws hundreds of thousands of people who jam the neighborhood’s residential streets each year.

The nighttime display, which began shortly after Thanksgiving, ended around New Year’s Day. But more than a month after the last lights went out, officials are still evaluating the

fallout from the event.

Josephine Beckmann, district manager of Community Board 10, said she was pleased that the New York Police Department had dispatched additional personnel to the area for traffic enforcement.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Board 10 Chairperson Lori Willis (left) and District Manager Josephine Beckmann (right) are working to encourage residents to participate in the 2020 Census. They are pictured with Cheryl Utley, director of Bay Ridge Connects, who led the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent board meeting.

Photo courtesy of Community Board 10

BY PAULA KATINAS

PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

Southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton had below average participation rates in the U.S. Census 10 years ago, according to local officials, who are eager to boost the numbers this time around.

Ten years ago, Bay Ridge had an average self-response of 62.1 percent, far below the national average of 76 percent, Community Board 10 officials said.

Dyker Heights did even worse with a response rate of just 56.5 percent. Fort Hamilton’s response rate was 60.5 percent.

Self-response refers to the rate of residents who filled out

BY NOAH SINGER & ALEX WILLIAMSON EDITORIAL @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

Anti-hate group Fight Back Bay Ridge hosted a forum last week to address recent white nationalist activity in the neighborhood, including an incident discovered earlier that same day

at the church that hosted the forum.

Stickers advertising a far right group were plastered all over the gate at Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church when Pastor David Aja-Sigmon arrived Thursday morning.

The pastor said the harassment didn’t deter him in the least from going ahead with the

event as planned.

“One of our guiding principles as a church is the scriptural charge ‘To be a house of prayer for all nations,’” AjaSigmon said in a statement.

“And though there was an attempt made to intimidate us, we know we’re not alone in our beliefs.”

The group behind the

stickers, and behind draping a banner over the Belt Parkway in January, is Patriot Front, classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist splinter organization that broke off from the neo-facist group Vanguard America after 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

 For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

AT RIGHT: Veteran activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins talked with Bay Ridge residents about countering white nationalism in their neighborhood.

Photo courtesy Fight Back Bay Ridge

Amid white nationalist activity, Bay Ridge takes its cues from a veteran activist

the Census form and mailed it back, as opposed to residents who received a visit at their home by a Census taker.

Board 10 has set a lofty goal this time around and is aiming for 100 percent participation in the 2020 Census.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

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DOT is looking to install safety features at Marine Avenue

BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

Lighthouse Diner building is sold for $2.1 million

BY PAULA KATINAS

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A Third Avenue building that housed a popular diner for 40 years has been sold for $2.1 million to a Bay Ridge buyer, according to the real estate firm that handled the transaction.

The 3,000-square-foot building at 7506 Third Ave. officially changed hands on Dec. 16, according to a press release issued by Axxis Real Estate LLC, a Long Island City-based firm.

The Lighthouse Diner was located on the ground floor of

the building for several years.

But there has been a diner at the location dating back 40 years, said Bob Howe, president of the Merchants of Third Avenue. “There were different incarnations of diners there, but it was always a diner,” he told the Home Reporter.

The Lighthouse Diner recently closed.

A Mexican restaurant will replace the Lighthouse, according to Axxis Real Estate LLC.    For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

After a young woman was choked and nearly raped inside a bathroom at the 95th Street subway station in Bay Ridge on Monday, Jan. 27, Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis was the only local lawmaker to attribute the incident to the implementation of the new state bail reform law.

She blamed the incident and the uptick in crime over the past month on the notion that suspects who previously had been held in jail because they could not meet bail are now, under a law that took effect on Jan. 1, being released without bail and are free to continue committing crimes.

Calling bail reform “a getout-of-jail-free card,” Malliotakis, the only Republican to represent the borough of Brooklyn, contended that bail reform “puts all New Yorkers at risk” during a press conference outside the station on Thursday, Feb. 6, where she was joined by New York

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The city’s Department of Transportation is developing a traffic safety plan for the intersection of Marine Avenue and Third Avenue, but it’s not clear how soon any changes will be coming to the busy corner because the agency is still analyzing five separate proposals.

A DOT spokesperson said the agency conducted a workshop on Jan. 16 with Community Board 10’s Traffic and Transportation Committee at which the five proposals were presented. The purpose of the workshop was to gather public input, according to the spokesperson. The agency expects to return to the community board next

month with another presentation.

“We are currently reviewing community input from the workshop and expect to have an update in March,” the spokesperson told the Home Reporter in an email.

Jayne Capetanakis, chairperson of Board 10’s Traffic and Transportation Committee, told her colleagues at a meeting of the full board on Jan. 27 that the corner of Marine Avenue and Third Avenue has been a problem intersection for years. In addition, the stretch of Third Avenue that runs from Marine Avenue to 99th Street, a short distance measuring about half a block, is also in need of serious scrutiny, she said.    For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

The other side of bail reform: B’klyn Republicans, Conservatives contend the new policy is a dangerous failure

Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis makes a point during the bail reform press conference.

State Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar and Brooklyn Conservative Party Chair Fran Vella-Marrone, as well as com-

munity leaders, residents and members of the law enforcement community who voiced their concerns about what they

believe to be a failed bail policy.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Residents grill 72nd Precinct top cop on crime in Sunset Park

BY JAIME DEJESUS

JDEJESUS @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

The increase in crime in Sunset Park was the subject — and Deputy Inspector Emman-

Deputy Inspector Emmanuel Gonzalez discusses crime in Sunset Park during a town hall meeting. ebrooklyn media/ Photo by Jaime DeJesus

uel Gonzalez, the commanding officer of the 72nd Precinct, was the featured speaker — during a forum organized by Rev. Samuel Cruz, the senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church earlier this month.

A sizable crowd of residents gathered at the church, 411 46th St., on Wednesday, Feb. 5 to discuss the issue, as well as the police response, especially in the wake of the new bail reform

and discovery laws.

“We have so many concerns and we want to say that we’re unsatisfied with some of the answers provided,” Cruz told Gonzalez.

“We’ve heard too often from some officers that they can’t do much because of the new criminal justice reform that is happening in the state.”  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

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Three-year-old in stroller struck by car in Bay Ridge, listed in stable condition

BY JAIME DEJESUS

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A three-year-old girl in a stroller was struck by a turning car on a busy Bay Ridge street on Sunday afternoon.

According to authorities,

on Sunday, Feb. 9 at around 4 p.m., a 2015 Jeep, driven by a 78-year-old man, made a right turn at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street and collided with a woman pushing a child in a stroller as they were crossing 86th Street in the crosswalk.

The child was taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn and is listed in stable condition.

A witness said that the girl was seen crying and screaming as she was loaded into an ambulance with her mother and sibling.

This is the second incident in which a child was struck and injured by a car on the streets of Bay Ridge. On Jan. 25, a two-year-old boy who ran into the middle of the street was hit by a car on 83rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

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The scene at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue after a toddler in her stroller was hit by a turning car.

News From Your Neighborhood EARLY PHOTOS ON DISPLAY AT TRANSIT MUSEUM

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Photos of early 1900s subway construction will be on view at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn when “Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs by Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis” opens on Feb. 13. Transit officials, way back when, hired the Pullis brothers to document the building of the subway.

In addition to the construction process itself, the brothers’ large-format prints captured many aspects of the city’s daily life, from children playing to men congregating in taverns to merchants selling their wares. The exhibit will run through Jan. 21, 2021 at the museum, which is underground at 99 Schermerhorn St. 

CHINESE AMERICAN GROUP HOSTS CENSUS KICKOFF

SUNSET PARK — The Brooklyn Chinese-American Association hosted a 2020 Census kickoff forum on Friday, according to the Brooklyn Reporter. The group and several other organizations discussed plans to assist Southwest Brooklyn’s Asian Americans to ensure their full participation in the Census.

As of 2010, Sunset Park and Bensonhurst had the largest Asian population in the city. Assemblymember Peter Abbate (D-Southwest Brooklyn), who offered his assistance, said, “For each family with two children that goes uncounted, you’re talking about losing between $5,000 and $7,000 that goes to health care, that goes to education, after-school programs and so many other services in the city.” 

POOL HALL WHERE CHAMP TRAINED IS BEING SOLD

BAY RIDGE — A Bay Ridge pool hall where a woman who won seven U.S. Open Championships trained is being sold, according to NY1 News. Jean Balukas, the daughter of the family who owned Ovington Billiards, began playing at the age of 4 and won her U.S. Opens when she was still a teenager. After she was inducted into the Billiards Hall of Fame at 26, her family renamed the place Hall of Fame Billiards. After Balukas, now 60, sells the pool hall, she plans to concentrate on golf. 

H.S. STUDENT NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT BPL

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch now has a new resource — a digital database of more than 900 issues of high school newspapers from the borough, according to Brownstoner. The newspapers date from 1853 to 1994, although most of the papers come from 1958-64. The newspapers have colorful names like the Red Owl, the Dutchman, the Liberty Bell and the Lincoln Log. If you want to find out what famous Brooklynites like Janet Yellen, Bobby Fischer, Bernie Sanders and Shirley St. Hill (Chisholm) were up to in high school, you can do a text search. No word on whether the scanned-in collection includes any of the underground student newspapers that were so popular from around 1967-72. 

B’KLYN PHOTOGRAPHER ALLEGEDLY SCAMMED MODELS INTO SEX

BOROUGHWIDE — A Brooklyn photographer, using a stolen shot of Kylie Jenner to boost his credentials, is accused of conning aspiring models into having sex on camera, according to the New York Post. Under the name of Scarlet Lexicon, Brhonson Lexier St. Surin sought women for fine-arts photo shoots, but then he pressured his subjects into having sex with him, his victims charged in a lawsuit. One woman claimed he locked her in a basement after she refused his request. Four alleged victims, whose names are not given in Brooklyn Supreme Court papers, went public to urge other victims to speak out. 

CITY SHUTS DOWN BUILDING SITE IN MARINE PARK AREA

MARINE PARK — City enforcers shut down a development site in Marine Park after the contractor allegedly disregarded previously approved construction blueprints and played fast and loose with safety regulations, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Neighbors have filed 11 official complaints with the Department of Buildings since June 2018, saying that the project at the intersection of Avenue T and Hendrickson Street was exceeding allowed height limits and creating an unapproved elevator shaft. The building under construction was also missing guardrails and netting meant to protect construction workers, the DOB said. The building is surrounded by one-family houses. The developer did not respond to requests for comment, the Brooklyn Paper said. 

B’KLYN-BASED CAFE CLOSES IN LOS ANGELES

GREENPOINT — Five Leaves, a West Coast outpost of a Green-

‘FARE’ WELL: Outgoing New York City Transit President Andy Byford took a last ride on the 51-year-old R-42 subway cars Wednesday morning and was greeted by a cheering crowd when the old cars opened their doors to the public.

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point café by the same name, has thrown in the towel in East Hollywood after only nine months in a historic Art Deco building in La-La Land, according to Los Angeles Eater. Reached for comment, the management of Five Leaves said, “All involved have made the incredibly difficult decision to close. We are certain something great will go into the beautiful space and building.” 

COPS OPEN HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION IN RED HOOK

RED HOOK — Police announced Monday that they’ve opened a homicide investigation into the death of an unidentified man found in a burned-out car in Red Hook on Saturday morning, according to amNewYork. Officers from the 76th Precinct and the FDNY responded to a 911 call about a vehicle fire at the corner of Court and Bay streets just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 8. Shortly before they put out the fire, firefighters saw the lifeless man sitting in the front passenger seat. 

`TRUE’ AFFORDABLE DEVELOPMENT MOVES CLOSER TO CONSTRUCTION

BED-STUY — A proposed 86-unit “true” affordable housing development moved one step closer to construction in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to Patch. Plans for DeKalb Commons moved to Borough President Eric Adams’ office last week for review. The project, being developed by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. and St. Nick’s Alliance, will build include seven-story buildings on city-owned property along DeKalb Avenue and a four-story building on Fulton Street. Henry Butler, district manager for Community Board 3, said the DeKalb buildings will be affordable housing to people who earn between 40 and 80 percent of the area’s median income. 

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SIX-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING PLANNED FOR PROSPECT-LEFFERTS

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Permits have been filed for a six-story apartment building at 408 Lefferts Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, according to New York YIMBY. The site, near the 2 and 5 trains’ Sterling Avenue station, is currently occupied by several vacant low-rise wooden houses and a large vacant lot. The building is slated to have 56 units, most likely rentals, as well as 27 enclosed parking spaces. Tolub Mansurob is listed as the owner, and Alexander Zhitnik of Z Architecture is listed as the architect of record. 

CITY EYES REVAMPING OF BAY RIDGE INTERSECTION

BAY RIDGE — The city Department of Transportation is developing a traffic safety plan for the busy intersection of Marine and Third avenues in Bay Ridge, but it’s not clear when any changes will be coming because DOT is analyzing five separate proposals, according to the Brooklyn Reporter website.

“We are currently reviewing community input and expect to have an input in March,” a DOT spokesperson said in an email.

Jayne Capetanakis, chair of Board 10’s Traffic and Transportation Committee, said the corner has been a problem intersection for years. 

B’KLYN BRIDGE MARRIOTT CELEBRATION SWEETER THAN HONEY FOR IBRAHIM

JUDGE PUTS HOLD ON RE BROKERS’ FEE BAN

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Sam Ibrahim, who is celebrating 35 years with Marriott Hotels, has been managing and leading the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge’s growth for almost 20 years. Not only famous for extraordinary conferences and events, like the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the hotel is now producing its own beer from the honey gathered at its rooftop hive, which was covered by the Eagle in 2017. 

PERMITS FILED FOR SIX-STORY GREENPOINT BUILDING

BROWNSVILLE — MTA officials plan to build a permanent enclosed passageway between the L train’s Livonia Avenue station and the 3 train’s Junius Street station in Brownsville by 2024, according to amNewYork. The plan to connect the two stations, which are less than 1,000 feet apart, is part of the MTA’s 2000-2024 Capital Plan, which also includes improvements to make both stations ADA-accessible. The MTA set aside $38.4 million for the project and has already spent $400,000 for pre-design activities. 

STATEWIDE — A judge issued a temporary injunction on a New York State Department of State ruling, intended as a clarification of the new Housing Tenant and Protection Act, that banned tenant-paid rental commissions to landlord-retained real estate agents. The Real Estate Board of New York and several other prominent real estate-related organizations had filed an Article 78 response to the ruling. The plaintiffs said the new “guidance,” as it’s known, would subject real estate brokers to loss of income and jobs.  GREENPOINT — Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 17 Eckford St. in Greenpoint, according to New York YIMBY. The closest subway stop is the G train’s Nassau Avenue station. Yisroel Greenfield, under the name 494 Manhattan LLC, is listed as the owner on the application. The building is slated to have 23 residences, most likely rentals, as well as 12 enclosed parking spaces. Jeffrey Kamen is listed as the architect of record. The site, which borders on Manhattan Avenue, is now occupied by a boarded-up one-story commercial building.

MTA TO BUILD PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN TWO B’KLYN STATIONS

FOUR-STORY BUILDING PLANNED IN BUSHWICK

BUSHWICK — New renderings from Tan Architect offer a first look at a proposed apartment building at 831 Hart St. in Bushwick, according to New York YIMBY. Building permit applications filed by the But Development Group are for a four-story, 54-foot building with seven rental units. When finished, the building will comprise 4,988 square feet plus a rear yard that will include active recreational space, New York YIMBY said.

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Gallery Players present ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’

BY JOHN ALEXANDER

at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, New Jersey in September 2012; COM it ultimately won the 2013 ark Slope’s Gallery Tony for Best Play.

Players are gearing “Vanya and Sonia and up for an exciting Masha and Spike” was pronew presentation of the play duced by Kirill Polich and directed by Tom Rowan, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” It’s set to open on who said that he was drawn Saturday, Feb. 22, and will to the play because he found run for 12 performances it to be hilarious. through March 8.

“Durang has a distinctive The play is the story of comic voice and a unique, middle-aged siblings Van- offbeat sense of life’s little absurdities,” Rowan told ya and Sonia, who share a home in Bucks County, this paper. “But this play has Pennsylvania, where they a warmth and a sweetness bicker and complain about about it that sets it apart the circumstances of their from many of his earlier plays, which have an anlives. Suddenly, their movie star sister, Masha, swoops in grier edge. That’s what I with her new boy toy, Spike. love about it; it’s a mellow, Old resentments flare late-career piece that takes up, eventually leading to a wise and empathetic look threats to sell the house. at family relationships. It’s Also on the scene are the also a play that focuses in mysterious and hilarious a light-hearted but honest housekeeper Cassandra, way on the realities that who can predict the future, people face in middle age and a lovely young aspiring — something many of us actress named Nina, whose can really relate to,” Rowan added. beauty somewhat worries the imperious Masha.

According to Rowan, auThe comedy was written diences need not be familiar

by Christopher Durang and with the works of Chekhov was originally presented to enjoy the play but it JALEXANDER@BROOKLYNEAGLE.

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Zach Barela plays Spike. would add extra enjoyment if they were.

“I wouldn’t call it a parody,” said Rowan. “Durang uses Chekhov references and parallels for comic effect and to underline his themes of the passing of time and the bittersweet ironies of life. The play’s echoes of Chekhovian themes and characters add depth and humor to the experience if you happen to be familiar

Director Tom Rowan. with his plays; Durang uses them in all kinds of clever ways, some subtle and some obvious. But the characters and the story are funny enough that you will have a great time, whether or not you know Chekhov.”

The ensemble cast includes Dawn Evans, Jon Krupp, Staci Merritt, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Casterline Villar and Zach Barela who plays Spike.

“Spike’s energy reminds me of when you’re watching Olympic gymnastics or ‘American Ninja Warrior’ and that childish part of you watches and thinks “I can do that!” It’s not coming from a place of cockiness or arrogance; it’s coming from that kid in you that needs to get into the bouncy castle to show everybody that you can do the best backflip in the world. It’s a sense of

optimism I think everybody can relate to,” Barela told this paper.

He also said that the most challenging, but also most enjoyable, part of being in the play was when Rowan allowed him input into his character. “Tom has told me to ‘find something to do during this part,’ when we’re working on a scene,” said Rowan. “I have to throw a bunch of ideas into the room and let go of worrying if they’re funny or make sense and allow myself to just play with the behavior.”

Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors over 65 and children under 12. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., with matinees on Saturdays, Feb. 29 and March 7, at 2 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. There will be an artist talk-back session following the Sunday, March 1 performance.

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By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

I took 72 photos of Central Park Slope on Saturday.

I would have taken more. But sunset comes too soon in the wintertime, and historic building facades look prettiest to me when the light of day illuminates them.

Brownstones seem to stretch to infinity when you stand on the sidewalk and try to see to the end of these Central Park Slope blocks.

On the corners of the avenues, there are small apartment houses called flats buildings. Some have shops on their ground floors. My favorites have architectural flourishes like turrets or multi-story rectangular window bays placed right on the corners of the buildings.

There are lovely limestone rowhouses. Clusters of Queen Anne homes remind me of picture-book illustrations of Merrie Olde England. (Decades ago, kids had picture books with stuff like that.)

Nearly all the buildings in Central Park Slope were constructed between 1870 and 1900. It may surprise you to hear that the area has the largest collection of non-landmarked buildings in New York City.

A group called the Park Slope Civic Council is trying to win historic-district status for the area, which is termed “the Center Slope.” The group’s Historic District Committee has launched the Protect the Heart of the Slope Campaign to help accomplish this goal.

Peter Bray, who chairs the Historic District Committee, expects it will take several years for the landmarking campaign to bear fruit. You can read his full interview in a story I wrote last week.

The landmarking campaign focuses on the section of the Center Slope that’s just east of Fifth Avenue and includes Union Street to 7th Street. The fourth border is the existing Park Slope Historic District, which for the most part is just east of Seventh Avenue.

The Center Slope just won a Six to Celebrate award from the Historic Districts Council, which it gives annually to New York City neighborhoods that merit historic-preservation attention.

Because of the award, the preservation advocacy organization will spend the next year assisting the Park Slope Civic Council in its landmarking efforts.

‘Truly the heart of Park Slope’ I want to mention a couple especially Instagram-worthy Center Slope spots before we hear from the head of the Historic Districts Council about why the neighborhood should be landmarked.

There are two eye-catching flats buildings with multi-story rectangular window bays on either side of Garfield Place at the intersection of Seventh Avenue.

Housewares store and gallery Artesana Home occupies the corner retail space at 154 Seventh Ave. Coffee shop Hungry Ghost is in the corner storefront at 156 Seventh Ave. Down the street, there’s a cluster of Queen Anne-style residences on Garfield Place between Fifth and Sixth avenues that architecture firm Langston and Dahlander designed. I know who the architecture firm was thanks to a summary of the neighborhood’s architectural highlights that the Park Slope Civic Council wrote.

Don’t these Garfield Place brownstone facades look like they’re made of Lincoln logs?

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Swedish-born Magnus Dahlander was a prolific designer of Brooklyn housing between 1888 and 1896. Sometimes he worked with architect Frederick B. Langston, and sometimes with Axel Hedman.

The Center Slope is eminently worthy of historic-district designation, Historic Districts Council Executive Director Simeon Bankoff told me.

“The Center Slope is truly the heart of Park Slope. It’s the area which most people envision when they think of Park Slope and, because of transit and the strong commercial presence, the part which Brooklynites, not just Slopers, are most familiar with,” Bankoff said.

“The blocks off the avenues are remarkably intact with architecture to equal the parts of the neighborhood which have been protected by landmark status for almost 50 years,” he added.

Remember Mayor Schieren?

Let me interrupt to point out especially eye-pleasing residential buildings on the corners of 1st Street and Sixth Avenue. The one at 287 Sixth Ave. has a storefront where Four Seasons Laundromat and Cleaners is located.

At 170 Seventh Ave., on the corner of 1st Street, there’s an eyecatching flats building with a multi-story rectangular window bay.

Bareburger occupies the retail space in this property.

The red-brick rowhouse at 472 2nd St. has murals signed by artist Jenna Morello on its facade.

St. Matthews English Lutheran Church is located on one of 2nd Street’s Sixth Avenue corners.

The Romanesque Revival house of worship’s cornerstone was laid in 1895, the New York Times reported (there’s a story about it in the paper’s online archives). Charles Schieren, who was Brooklyn’s mayor at that time, spoke at the cornerstone-laying service.

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An artist who uses the name doer.3 painted this mural at Artesana Home on Seventh Avenue.

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These painted window bays can be found on Sixth Avenue between 6th and 7th streets.

Continued from page 12 INB The brownstones on 3rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues look especially beautiful when winter sunlight warms their facades. Limestone homes on 3rd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues have stained-glass windows above their front doors.

Park Slope already has three landmarked areas. The Park Slope Civic Council played leading roles in winning historic-district designation for them.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the original Park Slope Historic District in 1973. It includes the blocks of the neighborhood that are closest to Prospect Park.

The LPC designated the Park Slope Historic District Extension, which is in South Slope, in 2012. And in 2016, the preservation agency designated Park Slope Historic District Extension II, which includes part of northern Park Slope.

‘Thriving under landmarks regulations’ “Obviously, Park Slope has only blossomed and thrived under landmarks regulations — to say otherwise would be absurd,” Bankoff told me.

“Park Slope, as a community, has transformed several times since its original development in terms of who and how many people lived in and used these buildings,” he said.

“What hasn’t substantially changed in all this time have been the buildings themselves, which have served numerous generations of families and residents.”

What historic-district designation could do for the Center Slope would be to “help guide future investment to enhance the area, not damage it,” Bankoff said.

He pointed to the revitalization of the Pavilion, a movie theater constructed around 1928, as an example of appropriate investment in landmarked Park Slope.

Hidrock Realty initially planned a condo conversion of the neo-Renaissance theater at 188 Prospect Park West that included a rooftop addition and the construction of a new building alongside it. After community opposition, the developer sold the Park Slope Historic District Extension property to an LLC with Nitehawk Cinema founder Matthew Viragh as a manager for $28 million, city Finance Department records indicate.

With the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s approval, Viragh renovated and remodeled the historic property and turned it into

INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan

Nitehawk Prospect Park. The popular venue offers in-theater food and beverage service, including alcoholic drinks.

Eye-catching terra cotta Now back to the subject of the Center Slope. On the 4th Street block between Sixth and Seventh avenues, brick rowhouses have bands of decorative terra cotta on their facades and barrel-shaped window bays clad in stone.

There are terra cotta decorations marked with the date 1886 on brick rowhouses on the 5th Street block between Fifth and Sixth avenues. I assume that was the year they were constructed.

Historic-district designation could help the Center Slope retain its special sense of place, Bankoff explained.

“The issues facing Park Slope as a community — commercial displacement, rising rents, lessening economic and ethnic diversity — will not be exacerbated by additional landmark designation, nor, unfortunately, will they be cured by it,” he said.

“What landmarking these incredibly meritorious blocks will accomplish will be to help ensure that the area’s fantastic architecture and streetscapes remain for future generations to discover and enjoy.”

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According to materials prepared in 2015 for the National Register of Historic Places, Adolph F. Leicht was the architect of this Gothic Revival-style house of worship, which is made of rough-faced granite blocks. Its construction was completed in 1901.

There’s an especially beautiful row of homes that starts at 448 6th St. and extends to 432 6th St. It’s got grand arched windows, stone stoops and a green-painted turret.

As long as the Center Slope isn’t landmarked, homebuyers can alter the neighborhood’s historic fabric in any way they wish, as long as they follow New York City Construction Codes.

Historically intact Center Slope blocks won’t stay that way indefinitely without the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s guidance, Bankoff pointed out.

“No one buys a $2 million historic rowhouse to just move in as-is; people spending that kind of money have their own ideas. It can be something as innocuous as putting in a barbeque and some landscaping to something as ambitious as building a new kitchen wing and raising the roof to convert the attic into usable rooms,” Bankoff said.

“Landmarks Preservation Commission oversight is critical to ensure that those kinds of alterations are designed to be in keeping with the existing historic building,” he added. “It’s worked across historic neighborhoods in Manhattan facing the same challenges — it can work in Park Slope.”

We all scream for ice cream Homes on 7th Street are also tremendously beautiful. A cluster of rowhouses on the block between Fifth and Sixth avenues is painted in varying ice cream colors — pistachio, vanilla, chocolate, coffee and a hue that reminds me of peach.

On the 7th Street block between Sixth and Seventh avenues, there are snowdrops growing in one house’s front garden. It was my first sighting this year of these flowers, which customarily bloom in the wintertime.

I asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission for comment about the Park Slope Civic Council’s campaign to win historic-district designation for the Center Slope. I included the agency’s response in the story I wrote last week. Here it is again: “Over the years, LPC has designated three historic districts in Park Slope resulting in the protection of 2,855 buildings and sites,” the agency spokesperson said. “We continue to study the surrounding areas in the context of our priorities in all five boroughs.”

Love this ecclesiastic architecture I can’t end this story without mentioning stunningly beautiful All Saints Episcopal Church at the corner of 7th Street and Seventh Avenue.

The cornerstone of this yellow brick and terracotta Romanesque-Moorish house of worship was laid in 1892, the church’s website says.

I should also mention that two of the Historic Districts Council’s 2020 Six to Celebrate neighborhoods are located in Brooklyn.

The other award-winning Brooklyn area is the East 25th Street block between Avenue D and Clarendon Road in East Flatbush. It is lined with Neo-Renaissance limestone and brownstone rowhouses. The 300 East 25th Street Block Association, whose president is Julia Charles, is campaigning to win historic-district status for the area.

I met her in November and wrote a story about her group’s landmarking efforts.

“The amount of development in our community is outrageous,” she told me then.

“Quite frankly, we’re feeling encroached upon.”

A terrific turret On the corner of 6th Street and Seventh Avenue, there’s Greenwood Baptist Church.

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‘Father of Blues’ visits school BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FEB. 11, 1954

Nelson Mandela waves to thousands of his supporters on Feb. 11, 1990 in Cape Town.

AP Photo Nelson Mandela was released from prison on Feb. 11, 1990.

The South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, who was jailed in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the state, received a hero’s welcome as he toured the globe following his release. He was given

a ticker-tape parade in New York City, paid a visit to Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn and spoke at a rally in Yankee Stadium. In 2014, the year after his death, a plaque was dedicated to him in the Stadium’s Monument Park.

In St. Clair McKelway Junior High School, 2163 Dean St., the excited whispering and the talk between periods was almost exclusively of a blind man, age 80, who had overnight become the school’s No. 1 hero: W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues.”

For an hour yesterday, as a high point in the Brooklyn celebration of Negro History Week, Mr. Handy was an honored visitor among the 12and 13-year-olds on Dean St. He signed autographs for them, he heard the school glee club open a Handy music festival with the singing of his “Afro-American Hymn,” and clarinetist Eugene Friedman, 13, play his “I See Though My Eyes Are Closed.” Then, after Murray Millander, 13, played “St. Louis Blues” on his trombone, Mr. Handy took over.

He talked to the youngsters — and they listened in dead silence — how he learned about music from the singing birds and from the chanting of the roustabouts on the levees and the steamboats.

He sang his own songs,

W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues,” nods approval and chuckles as eighth-grade pupil Donell Callaway, 13, wails blues on his trumpet in Brooklyn on Feb. 10, 1954.

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“Memphis Blues” and others, and he raised his trumpet and played his famed “St. Louis Blues” … “I hate to see — that

evenin’ — sun — go — down.”

“Life,” he told the children, when the wild applause had died down, “is some-

thing like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you don’t get anything out. And that’s the truth.”

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HILKE, Irene L. — Was born in Brooklyn on July 25, 1924, and left us peacefully at the age of 95 on February 5. Her maiden name was Irene Louise Cordes. She was preceded in death by her husband Martin Frances Hilke. Irene was a loving mother to her son Glenn Hilke and daughter Janice Malek. She was an amazing mother-in-law to Dr. Samir Malek and Heidi Coleman. She was a remarkable grandmother to Glenn’s three children — Ariel Dab-Hilke, Chelsea Dab-Hilke and Julian Coleman Hilke — and to Janice’s children — Samira Malek Houk and her husband Ian Houk, Matthew Malek and Eric Malek. She is now reunited with her sisters Evelyn Dubay and Madeline Tierney. She has one nephew, Evelyn’s son Dr. Gregory Dubay and great-grand nephew Van Dubay. When Irene was just five years old, her mother sadly passed away, leaving her to live with her grandmother.

She had two loving sisters, Evelyn and Madeline, and the three remained extremely close until they preceded her in death. She married Martin Hilke and they had two children, Glenn and Janice. Her fondest memories as a family were the summer vacations at Sunny Hill Farm in the Catskills. During those young years raising her children, she developed meaningful relationships with lifelong friends that truly enriched her life with wonderful moments.

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years of music and dancing at the American Legion Hall in their neighborhood, Windsor Terrace, until his sudden passing in 1986. Irene worked at the Tablet newspaper as a receptionist in Brooklyn until the age of 65. As she began a new chapter of her life, she met Louise, a co-worker also recently widowed. They became lifetime friends and travel companions, visiting many states, Europe and the Caribbean. One of her most cherished trips was to Egypt with her sister Evelyn.

She also enjoyed many trips to Las Vegas and monthly visits to Atlantic City and Yonkers until she was 93. Most notably, Irene was an amazing grandmother to six grandchildren that she loved dearly. She traveled numerous years, taking the bus to Montreal to be with three of her grandchildren living there.

She also spent many family weekends with her three other grandchildren who lived in Staten Island. Besides her love of travel, she enjoyed going to the theater and her Friday night card group of 40 years, often playing past midnight, and she was a truly dedicated Yankees fan. Living in Bay Ridge, she spent many a day with her friend Ruby taking their granddaughters to the park, or on weekly lunch dates and strolling Fifth Avenue. At the age of 93, she moved to an independent living in Farmington, Connecticut and made some wonderful new friendships, but Irene always said her heart remained in Brooklyn, and her family is sure her spirit is all with them, now happy to be back in Bay Ridge. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, Feb. 10 at Our Lady of Angels Church in Bay Ridge.

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was born March 8, 1931 in Clarinbridge, County Galway, Ireland. He is the son of the late Thomas and the late Mary (Bane) O’Dea. Beloved husband to Mary (Collins) O’Dea. Cherished father to Ann O’Dea, Mary O’Dea, Patrick O’Dea (Patricia), Thomas O’Dea, John O’Dea (Pauline, Kristine) and Colleen O’Dea Morris (Liam).

Dear brother to Louis, Mary, Cecilia, Eileen and to those that have passed before him, Fr. Egbert, Frank, Martin and Furzy.

Adored grandfather to Patrick, John, Thomas, Brian, Katie, Margaret, Marykate, Rebecca, James, Anna, Jack, Collin and Sophia. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial St. Columba Roman Catholic Church. Committal Calverton National Cemetery.

Cristiano. Beloved husband to Elsa (Ruscio) Cristiano. Cherished father to Gina Rita and Tony Cristiano. Dear brother to Salvatore Cristiano and Maria Gabriele. Adored grandfather to Sofia. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church. Committal St. Charles Cemetery.

CR ISTIANO, Nunzio A. — Age 58, of Brooklyn, passed away Saturday, Jan. 25. Nunzio Cristiano was born March 14, 1961 in Italy. He is the son of the late Antonino and the late Rosaria (Badalanenti)

BR EWINGTON, Elena — 1951 – 2020. Mass of Christian burial St. Dominic R.C. Church. Burial Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens.

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Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to who God has given such great assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St. Jude, pray for all who invoke your aid. Amen.

Say 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. This novena has never been known to fail.

Prayer to St. Jude. God who through Thy blessed Apostle Jude has brought us into the knowledge of Thy name, grant that by advancing in virtue we may set forth his everlasting glory, and by steering forth, his glory we may advance in virtue through Our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who livest and reignest with Thee in the united of the Holy Spirit, world without end.

Amen, “Blessed Apostle, with confidence we invoke thee! St. Jude, help of the hopeless, aid me in my distress!”

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but the talent, compassion, dedication, teamwork and culture of caring on every level,” she added.

M i nt z i nt r o d uc e d Maimonides Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer Michael Antoniades who said that National Heart Month was an important time to communicate awareness about what heart disease is all about. “Over 650,000 people die from heart disease every year in the United States,” said Antoniades.

“It is the number one leading cause of death in the United States for men and women. About 40,000 people die every year in New York from heart

The Maimonides heart flag proudly waves alongside the American flag.

Maimonides offers free cholesterol screening in honor of National Heart Month. disease. Every 40 seconds or so, someone has a heart attack in New York. We started this journey of treating and caring for patients with heart disease back in 1967. We did the first successful heart transplant in the United States right here at Maimonides.

Over 50 years later our exceptional heart and vascular team continues to provide lifesaving services to thousands of residents in Brookly n,” added Antoniades.

A nton i a d e s added that Maimonides has the

top-ranked program for heart attack care in the state of New York according to the New York State Department of Health.

Also speaking at the event were Dr. Robert Rhee, chief of vascular surgery; Dr. Jacob Shani, chair of cardiology and Dr. Greg Ribakove, chief of cardiothoractic surgery.

Following the flag-raising ceremony, the hospital offered a free cholesterol screening in the lobby with information packets and raffle prizes for those who participated.

Fleet Week prepares to sail back into New York Harbor

BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER@BROOKLYNEAGLE. COM

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or 32 years, a dynamic parade of ships has proudly sailed into New York Harbor in celebration of Fleet Week, a highly-anticipated annual event during which members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard assemble in New York City.

This year’s event runs from May 20 to May 26.

The time-honored tradition of the sea services has taken place nearly every year since 1984, with the exception of 2013 when it was cancelled due to federal budget cuts.

But it will certainly be in full swing this year. The week will include free public ship tours, military

displays and performances, and military helicopters landing at public schools and parks to showcase the skilled expertise of today’s maritime services.

“We are very excited to be back in the ‘Big Apple’ to celebrate 2020 Fleet Week New York,” said Rear Adm. Charles Rock, commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.

“We welcome the citizens of New York and the surrounding tri-state area to tour our ships and meet the men and women who work tirelessly each day to keep our nation safe,” Rock said.

Fleet Week New York officially kicks off with the annual Parade of Ships on Wednesday, May 20.

Five USN ships, two USCG cutters, four U.S. Naval Academy Yard Patrol boats, one Military Sealift Command ship, and one Royal

and interact with the community at local parades and gatherings. It is estimated that nearly 3,500 sailors, Marines and members of the Coast Guard will take part in various events through Memorial Day. For up-to-date information on all Fleet Week New York events, visit the

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Photos from last year’s Fleet Week from the Fort Hamilton Engeldrum Bluff.

Canadian Navy vessel are scheduled to participate this year.

Ships will be open for free public tours daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, May 21 through Monday, May 25. Last year, more than 66,000 people had

an opportunity to take ship tours and more than 37,000 people experienced helicopter landings at area parks and schools.

While in port, service members will visit area schools, soup kitchens and senior centers; provide

a helping hand through revitalization projects;

website at www.fleetweeknewyork.com.

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he president was acquitted. No surprise there. The pro-impeachment forces could not even muster a simple majority, let alone the constitutionally-required twothirds vote.

There were costs: political, financial and governmental. Tens of millions of dollars were arguably wasted on the process that led to the acquittal. Time was also wasted. The president and, for that matter, many members of Congress, are in agreement that there is much work to be done on issues ranging from border security to health care.

Politically, the fallout will be enormous for both parties. The Republicans, in addition to the obvious winner, President Trump,

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have new superstars like New York Congressmembers Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin.

The Democrats have a mix of winners and losers. They had a member flip to the GOP over the proceedings, which in any playbook is a loss.

The president’s popularity, based on several polls, has increased and the generic Congressional ballot ticked a bit more Republican.

In my opinion, Speaker Pelosi’s performance during the State of the Union was not helpful to the Democratic cause. Often, the difference in elections hovers around those that are on the fence. Ripping up the official copy of the State of the Union address presented to her by the president in all likelihood was not viewed favorably by those occupying

the middle ground. *** As I write this column on Sunday morning, news has just broken that an individual walked into the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, opening fire and wounding a police officer. This is the same police precinct that just a few hours earlier had been the scene of an attempted assassination of an officer, who escaped death by the grace of God. When the police become the targets, no one in our city is safe. A general anti-police attitude fueled by the mayor and echoed by progressive Democratic political leadership, both at City Hall and in Albany, has been a noticeable contributing factor.

Laws that created “Get Out Of Jail Free Cards” for bank

COMMON SENSE

BY JERRY KASSAR

Laws that created “Get Out Of Jail Free Cards” for bank robbers and hit-and-run perpetrators, among others, reconfigured the criminal justice system against the victim and in favor of the accused. robbers and hit-and-run perpetrators, among others, reconfigured the criminal justice system against the victim and in favor of the accused.

Anarchistic-style demonstrations that call for fewer

police to protect us, and cause criminally negligent property damage and disruptions to ordinary New Yorkers just going about their daily business only add to the general view that lawlessness has become a real concern in the city.

Those of us who cry out against this retreat from an almost 30-year period of relative stability are told we are fear-mongers. I say we have much to fear in the new paradigm the progressive Democrats have given us.

I suggest to my readers that we are the silent majority. If we intend to remain in our homes, community and city, we cannot remain silent

any longer. Action is needed.

We can no longer tolerate elected officials doubling down on cashless bail. We cannot allow those holding policymaking positions in city government to tell us we are safe, when we know we are not as safe as we were just four years ago.

All must speak out and attend meetings like those held by their local police precinct community council, their local community board or civic associations. Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights have two strong groups — the Bay Ridge Community Council and Dyker Heights Civic Association. Use these forums to amplify your concerns.

A PRICE TO PAY

he beginning of the year means budget prop osa ls.

L a st month, the mayor and governor released their plans, and de Blasio criticized Cuomo for recommendations that would shift more Medicaid costs to municipalities and slash billions of dollars in aid to the 62 counties across the state.

This past Monday, President Trump presented his budget proposal. Despite repeated promises not to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, including in last week’s State of the Union speech, his plan calls for slashing nearly $900 billion from Medicaid, half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and $25 billion from Social Security.

Public education would be cut by eight percent and $7 billion would be slashed from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which currently provides health

coverage to nearly 10 million children who would otherwise not have any.

The notion that this is just a typical conservative budget, in which choices are made to curb excessive taxing and spending, is betrayed by Trump’s own plans related to taxation and expenditures.

The corporate tax cuts that the president and GOPled Congress rushed though in late 2017, before the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House could be sworn in, costs the federal government $100 billion for each one percent reduction.

Since they slashed that rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, it reduces revenue by $1.4 trillion dollars yearly.

As for spending, even though the Defense Department recently asked for $705.4 billion, which would be $13 billion less than what it received last year, as has been the case every year

during Trump’s presidency, he is calling for much more than what the Pentagon wants. Trump has proposed an increase to $740.5 billion, which is over $35 billion more than the military has requested.

Being that current U.S. military expenditures are more than the next seven countries combined, the needless increase the Pentagon doesn’t want is merely a chest-thumping gimmick.

In cases like the F-35 fighter jet or the Abrams battle tank, since the military has repeatedly said that it does

Being that current U.S. military expenditures are more than the next seven countries combined, the needless increase the Pentagon doesn’t want is merely a chest-thumping gimmick.

MATTER OF FACT

BY JAY BROWN

not need them and most sit unused after they are purchased, they are simply a form of corporate welfare, in which our government promises to hand over taxpayer money to military contractors for equipment we have no intention of using.

Another needless expenditure in Trump’s proposal is $2 billion for his border wall. That would bring the total cost to $20.4 billion, which is $20.4 billion more than what taxpayers were told they would need to kick in for a project he promised Mexico would pay for.

This budget is as cruel as it is foolish. At a time when there have already been over 43,000 coronavirus

cases and over 1,000 deaths worldwide, Trump’s budget would reduce funding for the CDC by 16 percent and slash half of our annual funding to the World Health Organization. On the very day he released this proposal, more than 100 people died from the virus and when he was asked about it, he replied, "A lot of people think that goes away in April, with the heat.”

Budgets are as much moral statements as they are a set of financial figures. If you knew a family in which the head of the household decided that he or she would set a family budget in which the kids would have cut back on school supplies, a grandparent who lives with the family would no longer be afforded enough

money to pay for all of his or her prescription drugs, and everyone had to limit doctor’s visits for the year — with the savings used to pay for a new home security system that is in addition to the two already installed — you’d likely question those decisions on moral grounds.

This is not fake news. It is President’s Trump’s budget wish list and it is in black and white. He’s telling us all that he’s going to build a wall, but your Social Security and Medicare are going to pay for it. The only thing preventing this budget from becoming reality is the fact his party lost control of the House of Representatives in 2018, which is something to keep in mind when you cast your vote in 2020.

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City Councilmember MARK TREYGER & as opposed to $82,459 for comprehensive resiliency elevate a few blocks of Polonaise Terrace, forming Civil War thousands songs.

150 Greenpoint The event drew * * * shoreline along Coney IsVinnie Gentile -- who ensured the full CounCOUNCILMEMBER JUSTIN Manhattanites.

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Memorial Day. While stepments are still rebuildfor the negative effects of Street allocated (NFIP) GOP Assembly Candidate Tom McCarthy Memorial Day. step••• $25 million to restore and reduces premiums if there ping along in theWhile nighttime climateFourth change Avenue.

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The current adminissome as black or gray, two would love to help go toevery a good home a pair.

They are brothers and sister rescued as animal they rescue find the forever it deserves.

Where is the grand tration ran a onand ahome campaign home as a pair.

They are brothers sister rescued a kittens from a backyard.

Mistie, tuxedo cat, is a big The group’s home allows to become vision for Southern Brooktonetwork end the a tale of it two kittens fromfoster a backyard.

Mistie, tuxedo cat, is a big couch potato and very laid back.

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We had to and fight toeach couch potato laid Contact Troyens44@ yahoo.com. dogs and helps ensure the best possible match with in resiliency investments be included in the Army yahoo.com. adoptive families.

Zani’s Furry Friends is a memare frankly Dickensian.

Corps’ Rockaway-Jamaica “Hi, I’m Tali, a gorgeous, white long-haired cat in search ber of thehome Mayor’s Alliance and a 11 New Hope time for theyears mayor’s Bay Reformulation “Hi, I’m Tali, ato gorgeous, white long-haired cat in search of a Draft new call myIt’s own.

I’m oldPartner but still rhetoric to turn into realireport for a regional prowith the Animal Care & Control of New York City. of a new home to call my own.

I’m 11 years old but stil have quite a lot of spunk left. I’m strictly an indoor cat. tection plan for Eastern ty for neighborhoods like There are Cat and Dog Adoptions Every Sunday at a lotyour of spunk left. up, I’mI strictly anI only indoor cat Ihave won’tquite scratch furniture promise. have Island, Canarsie Brooklyn1280 and Queens, but, Coney Petco, Lexington Avenue, between East 86th I won’t scratch yourbeen furniture I promise. have back claws.

I have livingup, with my momI only all these Sheepshead Bay. from Our 12:30the Southern Brooklyn and 87th Streets in Manhattan backEast claws.

I there have been living withbaby my mom all but these years, but now is a and toddler.

The is sweet, I componentsHope were excluded coastal communities don’t 5:30pm. to seeisyou soon. years, there afingers toddler.

Thegrab babymy is sweet, but am not but usednow to pinching that tail. I need from the final report, again have the luxury of waiting not where used toI pinching fingers that grab my tail. need aam space can be the queen.

Can you find a Iplace another seven years. due to lack of funding. ***queen. a space I canhome?” be the Can you find a place for me inwhere your quiet We again fought to have WOOF: Councilmember Mark HEY JUDE...WOOF “I am heartbroken to for me in your quiet home?”

Kim 718-344-9697 these up components moved Treyger is the 10-month-old former chair of give my two half-Pointer-mix, pups.

Kim 718-344-9697 into the Army New onand Resiliency Sabrina andCorps’ Tyson lovethe toCommittee play ball run around.

PURRFECT MEWS: All of Jenny’s rescued kitties York & New Jersey Harbors and Recovery and CounBoth pups love people, are lap dogs, love to sit with PURRFECT MEWS: All of Jenny’s rescued kittie have been adopted into loving homes. & Tributaries Study, which cilmember Justin Brannan you.

Sabrina gives kisses but homes. sometimes gives a lithave been adopted into loving is the current chair ofthe the vacuum is notlove slatedbite to be completed tle before kisses.

She hates for years to come, has loves Committee on Resiliency and barks at it.and Tyson people, loves and to play and no dedicated funding.

Waterfronts. watch his sister play ball. He loves to play tug of war. They are lap pups. He also makes noises like Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars.’ It is very cute. I am in Lynbrook, New York.” – Jackie, 516-6980-5669.

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